Disney has gone through a number of layoffs this year and is just coming out of a voluntary retirement program.
“It is extremely painful,” admitted Dana Walden, President and Chief Creative Officer of The Walt Disney Company.
Earlier this week, the Mouse House laid off a couple of hundred employees, largely in areas such as tech and HR. This come after it introduced a Voluntary Early Retirement Offer, which itself came after several hundred jobs in July, largely across Nat Geo and Pixar, which also followed a layoff round of around 1,000 employees after Josh D’Amaro was named
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